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“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

“عن نفسى,إذا كان ثمن المساعدة هو حريتى فلا أريد أن يساعدنى أحد,لا أريد وصاية من أحد ‎‬”
― بهاء طاهر, لم أعرف أن الطواويس تطير

“في كل امرأة شيء من المستحيل وفي كل رجل
شيء من العجز والغباوة في كشف هذا المستحيل”
― واسيني الأعرج, طوق الياسمين

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
― Walt Disney

“بدون ما أعرف سبب واضح ...
عشان أزعل...
أنا زعلان !”
― مصطفى إبراهيم

“أنا أحسن واحد يقنعك تحكي…

ومابيحكيش…

وأحسن واحد يقنعك تبكي…

...وما بيبكيش…

أنا أحسن واحد يقنعك تفرح….

وأحسن واحد يقنعك تجرح…

أنا أحسن واحد ميت….

يقدر يقنعك….تعيش…”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, المانيفستو

“عارفه إن أنا يوميا بكبر ؟
وبعجز اكمني مابنساش
أنا فاكر أيام بالميللي
أنا فاكر أيام بالتفصيل”
― مصطفى إبراهيم

“But I could be wrong.”
― Carl Sagan

“كوني ما شئتِ ، ليمسخ الإهمال صورتك ، ليقس الضنا على محياك ، بل فليشوهك الزمن الذي لا يرحم .. فأنتِ أنتِ عندي .. آخر علمي وذوقي ومنتهي تجربتي”
― يحيى حقي, قنديل أم هاشم

“ما بيبكيناش ف غيابكم إلا الشوق
وما تفهموش من ضحكتى إنى ارتحت
لو حدّ فينا ارتاح يبقى اللى بيغمض ساعة الفراق
أما أنا ساعة الفراق .. فتّحت”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, المانيفستو

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
― Warsan Shire

“Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.”
― Warsan Shire

“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”
― Warsan Shire

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire

“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”
― Warsan Shire

“all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun. you made jokes and sure, i may have even laughed a little but mostly you were not funny. mostly you were beautiful. mostly you were unremarkable, even your mediocrity was unremarkable. when friends would ask ‘what do you like about him?” i would think of you holding a bouquet against the denim of your shirt. i mean, you had my face as your screensaver for gods sake, do you know what that does for the self-esteem of girl with an apparition for a father?

hey, do you remember the quiet between us in all those restaurants? all the other couples engrossed in deep conversation and us, as quiet as a closed mouth.

that one afternoon when i asked ‘why do you love me?’ and you replied as quick as a toin coss ‘because you’re mad, because you’re crazy’ and i said ‘why else?’ and you said ‘that mouth, i love that mouth’ and i collapsed into myself like a sheet right out of the dryer.

you clean, beautiful, unremarkable boy, raised by a pleasant mother, was i just a riot you loved to watch up close? there were times i picked arguments just so that we could have something to talk about.

last week, i walked through the part of the city i loved when i still loved you, our old haunts. you know, even the ghosts have moved on.”
― Warsan Shire

“Gone.
Vanished.
Nothing left.
Nothing said.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.”
― khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“But then it passed, as all things do.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed